Re: Sort files by filename

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

Les wrote:
> 	Using C, you could open the directory, sort the list, compare for a
> desired sequence from a starting value to an ending value and pass out a
> list of missing files, and it would take only milliseconds, primarily
> limited by disk access speed.  

Milliseconds aren't so hard to match these days.  Let's try my 'compare 
to list' shell approach:

# time ls * |comm -13 - ../list
5
6

real    0m0.007s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.007s

Note that it is dominated by the system time anyway - although you have 
to wonder about the math there - maybe both processors get counted.

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  Les Mikesell
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